If you hadn't noticed before I am madly in love with this game. It was the main reason to buy a 3DS for me, and I got the soundtrack and I am really thinking about getting the Awakening themed 3DS XL hardcase.
This game is huge and took me 65 hours to complete (this included the main story, several sidemissions and random battles). The story gripped me from the first minute on and only had me take a break at the halfway point, when fittingly also the events in the game take a break.
This game is proof that Nintendo still cares for core gamers and I hope we will see the other games in the series rereleased on the e-shop. Again: I cannot recommend this game enough. It's by far my favorite game of the year (so far) and one of my favourite games of all time. I'm really thinking about restarting the game in Lunatic Mode but that would be suicide.
If you are playing this play it on Hard at least. The new Casual Mode (where fallen units revive after battle) is a godsent for beginners, making this game the perfect title to get into the series. And experts can still choose not to activate it at the start. But beware: Units can die easily and the game doesn't always play fair and starts spawning reinforcements for the enemy right behind you a few missions in. So make sure your healers are in a safe position.

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All right. I bit and got the Aliens Stasis Interrupted DLC(PC).

None of the spoilers are story related.

The first of four levels is actually really well done. There's a couple "what's up with that" moments, but otherwise the level has tension, suspense and dare I say it... borders on the horror genre. How? Well,

the majority of the level is played without weaponry, but this time there's no ridiculous looking Aliens

.

The second is good too and includes a

vent portion

with Aliens that I wish lasted a lot longer than it did. Unfortunately, the latter half of the DLC almost feels like the normal campaign mode and the tie-ins to Alien 3 feel completely forced(I'm looking at you, Hicks' body). Yes there's an explanation and yes, it's plausible...like winning the lottery, but while there could have been carefully placed herrings and hints, there weren't. Just a short cutscene cramming it in.

One plus...and it's a big one.
They obviously listened to feedback(yeah Randy said they were going to, but who believes Randy these days) and cut down the human enemies. They still exist and they do get more prominent as the DLC goes on, but there are lots of Aliens. I mean lots. Sometimes having to switch between 3-4 weapons lots(assuming you're not A-B running the levels. Except the one you have to).

While the second half let me down compared to the first, the Alien behaviour was improved(sneaky bastards), the tracker was improved(more appearing disappearing with movement), and overall it was more enjoyable.

On it's own, I'd give it 7/10(Originally a 6, but the couple things I really liked got me to push it to 7), but compared to the campaign, fuck, I'd say 9. Big improvement(whether it was the feedback or the fact that it was a different team working on it, I'll take either).

After 44 hours the main quest line is done. Was the game worth the 10€ I paid for it?
Maybe.

+ my first Pokémon game after Red
+ many improvements over the first one
+ much harder game --> you can no longer just use one Pokémon and beat everything easy, weaknesses mean something and can no longer be tanked.--> still only 2 KOs in the whole game for my team.
+/- The arenas are all puzzle based. Which may be great but some of them take several minutes to move from the entrance to the boss.
+ There is a story involved here...

- ...but it isn't used well. They could have done something really interesting with the Pokémon liberation movement thing but since it's a Pokémon game everything is still black and white (can U C what I did there?)
- fake 3D and "round" levels stop being interesting after a while. If there was free movement it may have worked.
- Only gen 5 Pokémon during the main game unless you play their stupid online game thing (after the credits you unlock more pokémon but chest space is too small to catch all of them, sadly)
- Horrible bottom screen after you get the C-Gear. Whyyyyyyy!
- Nintendo is still forcing you to buy the same game twice to catch em all. This will never change though I guess.
- Some new Pokémon are ugly as sin. Icecream cones, exploded garbage bags, things that begg you to kill them...
- no multilanguage game. Unlike 99% of all DS games this only comes with one language. A shame.

In total: 5/10. Might have been a 7/10 but the language problem really ruined my day.

A game of trying to make Uncharted story driven(not just because it's NG, this is seriously what I feel about it). I've played for about 4 hours and I just want it to end. I don't care about any of this people! I don't even care about my own character. Bland person A, meet bland person B, talk vaguely about something that happened before the game.

Since so many people love it, I have to assume the development kicks in at some point. I have never played a game with a more boring first few hours. It's just torture. It's the video game equivalent of The Langoliers; 3 hours of people you don't like or care about doing a whole lot of nothing with minimal flesh to their character.

To all the people who are raving about this game, I implore you, talk me into playing it again. I paid for it, but as it stands right now, I don't even want to put it back in the console again.

playing it is not worth it when you don't like the first 4 hours. Quit now before you hate the game even more.
That killing off side characters bullshit will not stop until the end section of the game.